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I still have a few 2013 releases to catch up with, and I though I wanted to make my Oscar nominations predictions post having seen all of them, the nods are due early tomorrow morning so I’ll have to post them now.

The success the French movie The Intouchables has had is pretty damn amazing. It’s made $345 million at the worldwide box office, which makes it the highest-grossing film ever worldwide that not in English. Of that huge amount, a whopping $166 million came from France, where it was voted as the cultural event of 2011. So I’ve most definitely been very curious to check out this film, to check out what all the fuss is about, because this one’s just loved like crazy by most of the people who have seen it, earning a spot in the Top 100 according to IMDb user ratings, and with Omar Sy winning Best Actor at the last César Awards (the French equivalent to the Oscars), where he beat out fellow Frenchman, and eventual Oscar-winner, Jean Dujardin.

Les Misérables is a bit too over-the-top and pompous, but it’s still seriously well-made, with a passion and energy that translates to the performances (with one critical omission) even if it doesn’t always do the same with the vocals. Read my review for it here.

Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s follow-up to The Hurt Locker is an undeniable masterpiece, a film that’s both disturbing and 100% necessary, the most vital film about post-9/11 America. Read my review for it here.